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The Emergency Management Network Podcast

This podcast features strategies and advice from today’s leaders and experts in emergency management. Its purpose is to empower and enrich current and future leaders. emnetwork.substack.com

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School Shootings and Emergency Management

The Emergency Management Network Podcast ·

2022/06/23

The K-12 School Shooting Database research project is a widely inclusive database that documents each and every instance a gun is brandished is fired, or a bullet hits school property for any reason, regardless of the number of victims, time, or day of the week.The School Shooting Database Project is conducted as part of the Advanced Thinking in Homeland Security (HSx) program at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS).Todd DeVoe Twitter handle:

Navigating Disaster Politics

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2022/06/19

During a round table, I asked Craig Fugate if we could take politics out of Disaster response. His answer was simple, no. It is that all disaster responses have political consequences. Fema has a training called The Politics of Disaster. Here they state, "Disasters have Political Consequences: One widely observed but not fully understood principle of the disaster/politics relationship is that disasters and their aftermath have significant potential to affect the political environment of a community,

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Our Next Generation of Emergency Managers

The Emergency Management Network Podcast ·

2022/06/16

Join Todd and Toni as they discuss developing and mentoring the next generation of emergency managers. It is up to the current emergency management profession to ensure that the next generation is ready to take the helm. Todd DeVoe Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/ToddTDeVoeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddtdevoe/Substack: https://emnetwork.substack.com/Website: https://toddtdevoe.com/ Guest Info HereLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonihauser/ This is a public episode. If you’d

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The Shrinking Humanitarian Space

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2022/06/13

Last week, I started this piece on what it is to be a humanitarian. This came from a great interview I did with Kerri Murray, the President of ShelterBox for NDEM's Prepare, Respond, Recover podcast. Since then, the National Geographic Society released a documentary on Chef Jose Andres and the nonprofit he created World Central Kitchen. That coincidence confirmed to me that I had to do this piece. Even as the war in Ukraine is still raging on, the yellow and blue flags are being removed from

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Leading Resilient & Robust Communities

The Emergency Management Network Podcast ·

2022/06/09

Join Josh Bowen and Todd De Voe as they discuss ways you can make your community antifragile. Today Communities are facing complex challenges, natural and human-caused disasters, political division, supply chain issues, globalization, urbanization, homelessness, and land-use problems. To help strengthen our communities, we must address these threats, and a call for action that combines disaster preparedness with empathy, robust planning, and moving toward being an antifragile society. Community

Disaster Economics, Do We Have The Will To Change?

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2022/06/05

Disaster Economics, Do We Have The Will To Change? I was writing a piece for this week on the efforts of humanitarians in the world. (This is because I had a great interview published on June 7 on Prepare. Response. Recover.) I could not shake the need to talk about disaster economics. As the hurricane season is upon us, Alex is heading to Flordia with an early-season storm as I read these words. We need to look at some history to address the future. On February 1, 1953, a fierce, sustained storm